Tanana

American  

[tan-uh-nah, -naw] / ˈtæn əˌnɑ, -ˌnɔ /

noun

Tananas, plural Tanana plural

1. a river flowing northwest from eastern Alaska to the Yukon River. About 650 miles (1,045 km) long.

2. a member of a North American Indian people of the Tanana River drainage basin in east-central Alaska.

3. the Athabascan language of the Tanana.

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Tanana British  

/ ˈtænənɑː /

noun

1. a river in central Alaska, rising in the Wrangell Mountains and flowing northwest to the Yukon River. Length: about 765 km (475 miles)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Tanana
  plural
• Tananas
  plural

Example Sentences

Engram chose sections of eight rivers: the Colville, Noatak, Tanana, Yukon, Kantishna, Innoko, Copper and Kuskokwim, listed here in descending order of latitude.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024

Still, the project is an important indicator of the tribe’s commitment to water conservation, said Heather Tanana, a visiting law professor at the University of California, Irvine and citizen of the Navajo Nation.

From Washington Times • Nov. 20, 2023

Guest: Heather Tanana, assistant professor of law at the University of Utah and citizen of the Navajo Nation.

From Slate • May 23, 2023

“There have been a lot of promising announcements but so far not a lot of tangible results,” said Heather Tanana, an assistant professor at the University of Utah College of Law, who is Navajo.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2021

As they rolled down from the forested ridges above the Tanana River, Alex gazed across the expanse of windswept muskeg stretching to the south.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer